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Everything is funny, as long as it's happening to somebody else.

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Will Rogers
Age: 55 †
Born: 1879
Born: November 4
Died: 1935
Died: August 15
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My father was one-eighth Cherokee indian and my mother was quarter-blood Cherokee. I never got far enough in arithmetic to figure out how much injun that made me, but there's nothing of which I am more proud than my Cherokee blood.
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Everything is funny as long as it is happening to Somebody Else, but when it happens to you, why it seems to lose some of its Humor, and if it keeps on happening, why the entire laughter kinder Fades out of it.
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There is one guaranteed formula for failure, and that is to try to please everyone.
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A country can get more real joy out of just hollering for their freedom than they can if they get it.
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And, when the votes are counted, let everybody, including the candidates, get into a good humor as quick as they got into a bad one.
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All one has to do to get one's stuff in the Congressional Record is to find a stenographer that can stay awake long enough to take it down. Then you mark in the 'Applause' and 'Laughter' parts yourself.
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The South is dry and will vote dry. That is, everybody that is sober enough to stagger to the polls will.
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